Collaborations: MFA CD Blog

I sat down with Olivia Güthling (MFACD ’15) to talk about some of her experiences at this year’s Design Week Portland. Here she shares her views on what it means to be a Collaborative Designer, and the importance of talking about the vision that drives your design.

Adding to the intellectual ecosystem of Collaborative Design, Natalie Jeremijenko visited the Collaborative Design Studios to talk about Experimental Experiments: How to improve environmental health and eat it too.

The MFA in Collaborative Design welcomes Jay Harman as part of the 2013-2014 Graduate Visiting Artist Lecture Series.

Inventor, entrepreneur, futurist, Jay Harman thinks big, outside the box but inside of nature. He is one of the world’s leaders in biomimicry research and development as well as founder of several companies that create industrial solutions that are clean and green and based on mimicking nature’s design solutions. Harman has just published his first book The Shark’s Paintbrush: Biomimicry and How Nature Is Inspiring Innovation.

Please join Collaborative Design in the our studios (1330 NW Kearney) this Thursday, 10/3 for brews and snacks. Natalie Jeremijenko is visiting and will be giving a presentation, “Experimental Experiments – How to improve environmental health and eat it too”.

UPDATE: Natalie will not be at happy hour. Instead, please join us for Lunch, Friday 10/4, at noon. Natalie will give her presentation then.

Happy Hour starts around 4:30; Natalie will give her presentation at 5:00. Hope to see you there!

David Eagleman, Phd is a neuroscientist and a New York Times bestselling author. He joined a group of CD students and PNCA undergraduates taking a neuroscience class to discuss a wide range of topics relating to students questions about the brain.